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Populated by female characters, the film analyses the agony of homecoming at a time of personal and national turmoil.... Emergence of women's cinema in China Being a woman in patriarchy has been a resonating theme in the Chinese films of the 1980s, where the narrative accorded women a central position in the purview of cinematic representation (Dissanayake 13).... Director of Sacrificed Youth Zhang Nuanxin candidly admitted that she was driven more by artistic impulses than by pledging allegiance to any particular genre of cinema, contextually ‘women's cinema'....
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The concept of gender identity and the relationship which this created in film was the basis of the female experience and consumption within the cinema.... Spectators then not only became associated with the relationship and emotional responses, but also associated with the consumer ideal and the understanding of what female identity should be inclusive of (Stacey, 1995).... the relationship to the spectator with gender identity which one could associate with then became the main point of consumption and objectification of females....
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The following is a precise and detailed script of the relationship of film aesthetics and socio-cultural, political and the economic environment.... The relationships between film aesthetics and the social/political/economic contexts in which they are located Film aesthetics in the movie, “Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner” reveals realism in the sense that a person seeks to satisfy many needs at the same time....
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Conventions of Hollywood melodrama In European movies Since 1920, European cinema has set for an enterprise to have an individual identity and disassociate itself from Hollywood.... The first motif comprises of a film's economic aspect, global competition and international expansion, and the other one includes national film policy.... European cinema has always been torn between two contrary objectives.... After 1960, European cinema took itself to a new level by addressing to new and better class audiences....
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The second woman and the relationship of Osugi with her form a vital discourse in the film.... Japanese cinema Response Paper INTRODUCTION Eros Plus Massacre was released in the year 1969.... Yet, the interplay of dark and light especially in the scene where Masaoka tries to kill Osugi placed at a wide angle at the outset of the shot makes a statement which is almost indelible in the paradigm of lighting within the pantheon of black and white cinema....
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Ethnic and national cinema is decreasingly purely ethnic and increasingly international in scope (Lu, 1997).... Cinema, film, as with all forms of arts, is a global medium of communication, transcending national, cultural and linguistic boundaries to bring a multinational audience together for one of those, very rare, moments of transnational shared enjoyment.... Some films, as Urry (1995) explains, insofar as they emanate from within the very bounds of an ethnic, rather than national, experience and are expressed through referenced to ethnic cultural and historical memories, cannot make the crossover....
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One of the main connoisseurs of new German cinema from the late 60's to the early 80's was German film director, screenwriter and actor was Rainer Werner Fassbinder.... assbinder's success in German theatre allowed him leverage when it came to ascending the rungs in mainstream cinema which he considered in greater esteem than theatre.... But the German bourgeois always valued the older German theatre more highly than the younger cinema (Barnett p....
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In this way, visual culture becomes a body of knowledge that defines and limits what can be said about sexuality and gender relations as well as the identification of self.... "The Contributions of Psychoanalytic Theory to Film Theory and Visual Culture in General" paper argues that Psychoanalytic thought pointed to early films of the 1940s as examples, and stated that some of these films were aimed at particular groups of viewers, in this case, women....
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